Planes, ports, and paternity | Suella Braverman, Lisa Nandy, and Guy Opperman
Sophy Ridge On Sunday
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4.2 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
There's been the damning report into London's Metropolitan Police, questions over the Government's plans to reduce crossings in the Channel, and just as schools begin to break-up for the Easter holidays, back-to-back queues are affecting the Port of Dover.
The Home Secretary speaks to Sophy about all these issues, plus her plans to introduce a new legal duty for people working with children to report "signs or suspicions" of sexual abuse.
For Labour, shadow housing and communities secretary Lisa Nandy tells Sophy why she believes the Government hasn't properly prepared for a post-Brexit Britain.
Plus, the employment minister and Conservative MP for Hexham, Guy Opperman, tells the programme why he wants better maternity care, and support for parents who experience child loss.
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| 0:36.2 | Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. Well, this |
| 0:41.6 | week I've been speaking to the Home Secretary Suella Braviman and for Labour, we spoke to the party's |
| 0:46.3 | shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandi. Plus, we're also going to hear a really special interview |
| 0:52.0 | with a Hexham MP and Employment Minister Guy Offerman. |
| 0:55.3 | He talks about his experience of baby loss and how he wants the government to improve maternity services. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, joining us today to unpick all of this is the Observer columnist and Papers leader writer, Sonia Soda. |
| 1:10.1 | Good to have you with us. |
| 1:11.5 | Thank you for having me. Yeah, it's lovely. It's the first time on the pod. So yeah, great to have you. |
| 1:15.7 | Now, before we begin, we'd love it if you subscribe to our podcast because we're here every Sunday with all the |
| 1:20.3 | politics you need for the week ahead. It's been a big week for us because we had the Home Secretary |
| 1:23.8 | and it's one of these things where you feel a certain amount of responsibility as an interviewer on weekends like this because frankly we don't get the opportunity to talk |
| 1:31.6 | to her very much indeed. We, I can't remember the last time I spoke to her, but it was certainly |
| 1:36.8 | not as Home Secretary. So you do really kind of, I guess, think about the interviews a bit more |
| 1:42.7 | than usual. I think I'll probably write three different versions and I guess I was trying to work out what to go on because there's |
| 1:48.4 | so much to talk about. The difficulty is what do you leave out rather than what do you leave in? |
| 1:54.2 | Absolutely. I think when you're looking at a department like the Home Office, there's just so much |
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